It's a trick they've pulled before, with some success.

Among the first-class passengers on board are two English confidence tricksters, making a discreet exit from a little awkwardness they have left behind them in the United States.Ī chance meting on deck brings them a tempting new target in the shape of Miss Charnwood and her niece, the beautiful Diana, only child of the immensely wealthy Fabian Charnwood. The new and luxurious transatlantic liner Empress of Britain is on her eastward passage. And for Charlotte, something extraordinary is beginning to happen.Īs fifty years of secrets begin to unravel, shy, cautious Charlotte is coming alive in the shadow of a mystery-uncovering a shocking tale of wartime greed and treachery, and a vendetta of violence seemingly without end…. Now, amid shattering revelations about her family, and in the aftermath of a second savage crime, Charlotte finds herself at the center of a widening storm.

But Charlotte has little time to mourn the loss of her beloved aunt and little patience when police quickly arrest a man Charlotte believes is innocent.įor Charlotte, a harrowing quest for answers begins-one that will take her into the shadows of the past…and into the life and secrets of the dead woman’s brother, famed poet and casualty of the Spanish Civil War, Tristram Abberley. The crime stuns the elderly spinster’s family-especially Beatrix’s niece, Charlotte Ladram. In her seaside cottage, Beatrix Abberley bravely confronts an intruder moments before her life is brutally taken.

Past Caring by Robert Goddard